attempt
Example Sentences
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The skier, who has not been identified, was attempting a run called Dropout 2 — among the steepest marked trails in California — which descends from the summit ridge of the 11,000-foot mountain.
From Los Angeles Times
Her attempts to build on that historic success have been disrupted by countless injuries and several coaching changes, with Raducanu struggling to find consistent form on the WTA Tour.
From BBC
At one point Karp tried to rally the troops and attempted to organize a joint letter, but a critical mass wouldn’t sign on.
A Gates spokesperson said the claims in the July 18 emails “are absolutely absurd and completely false” and that “this is another example of Epstein’s repeated attempts to claim a role in Gates’s orbit.”
He then linked his attempts to gain the semiautonomous Danish territory of Greenland to his failure to clinch the prize, telling the Norwegian prime minister that he no longer needed to think “purely of peace.”
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
